The  Astral  Realm

Uranda   October 27, 1937

Many people consider the astral realm and so-called experiences therein to be very real. No matter what anyone has said or written concerning the astral, the simple truth of the matter is that it is the emotional phase of the mental plane, and the mental plane is limited to the realm of human consciousness. There are no entities, either good or evil, in the astral realm; nor is there such a thing as an earthbound spirit. Psychics, who think that they contact astral beings, or earthbound spirits, are simply opening the emotional phase of their own human minds to thought forms which have been made by the thinking of human minds. These thought forms are not beings, or entities, in any sense of the word, any more than a phonograph record can be said to be the person who spoke or sang the words recorded thereon. Intense and habitual thinking in any one way produces a thought form which can be contacted by a mind reader, and whatever has been impressed on that thought form can be detected—but all that comes from the astral realm had its source in faulty human minds, and its value is literally less than nothing.

When a person who has had an intense thought and emotional life dies, the inner God Being ascends with all of the responsive portion of that person—that which ascends is completely beyond the reach of any psychic, or mind reader, or anyone else who thinks to contact the dead. The thought forms which that person created by his thought habits, whether good, bad, or both, are released into the mental plane, where they dissolve and disappear, unless they are attracted by some human being who is functioning on a vibration similar to that upon which the thought form was first made, in which case the thought form may become attached to the person who attracts it. If a sufficient number of such thought forms are attracted by any person, he begins to show signs of being unbalanced, and if he continues to be subject to such thought forms and to attract more of them, he will finally become what is called insane. However there is no entity of any kind involved in such a process, other than the living human being who attracts the thought forms.

Not long ago an earnest sister asked this question: “What will become of the astral realm and the evil, earthbound entities that are said to inhabit it?” My answer was: “The astral realm is in the mental plane, and all things therein are but thought forms which will be burned up in the transforming fire of love. The astral realm, so called, will be no more, and now there is no such thing as evil, earthbound entities, excepting ordinary human beings!”

Various questions recently asked might be combined like this: “Will a new planet be created for those who fail to respond and do not make the right-hand turn? Or will they be taken to some distant planet for further development? Or will they continue to incarnate here on this earth, as in the past, until they are able, finally, to make the right-hand turn? If not, what is their fate?” Time after time, in my writings, I have pointed out that the inner soul, or Lord, or Father, or God-Self is perfect in each and every human being. During physical life there is an ascension, or resurrection, or transition, of the human body into the divine inner body to the degree of the earnestness and sincerity and love that expressed through the human being; and all else, including that which remains at death as the corpse, is exactly the same as the refuse that is cast out of the body day by day through the bowels—it is no longer a part of that being, and insofar as that form, or person, is concerned, it is as if it had not been. That which ascends from any person, no matter how evil that person may have been on earth, is perfect, Divine, and holy, for all the evil is left behind as refuse. The refuse that is cast off day by day, and at the end of physical life as it is now known, simply returns to its natural mineral elements, to be picked up from the soil by vegetation and to be returned thereby into the cycle of life, wherein that substance is given another opportunity to ascend.

Understanding these facts, it becomes clear that after the great change into the new age, there will be no more incarnation of God Beings into evil or wayward human beings; for there will be no more evil beings of any kind. The Inner Beings of all people are now perfect. That which ascends, either at death or through experiencing the true transition into the new age without death, has been, is, and will be perfect. Insofar as the ascended being is concerned, there will be no difference whatsoever, whether the whole body ascends or whether a portion of the body, because of evil, is cast off as a corpse. The difference is with the human beings involved. Those who respond are those who ascend into oneness with their Lords. Those who refuse to respond and fail to make the right-hand turn are simply returned to the dust of the ground from which they came, and that substance will never again be drawn into the same form. So it is that that form, or human being, will be as if it had not been. Instead of ascending, such an one, speaking of the outer human, is returned to the dust, to be picked up in a thousand different forms of vegetation, and from thence to enter into a thousand different manifestations of the animal kingdom. It is easy to see that atoms that have been in human bodies are picked up by grass. A cow eats the grass, and a hundred different people eat the cow. So is the cycle of life in the outer world at the present time.

The point which so many people cannot yet get clear in their consciousness, because of the mass of false information that has been taught in the world, is that whatever ascends with the inner God Being is perfect in every last detail. In that which ascends there is not the slightest vibration of evil in any form, no matter from whom it ascends. Let us illustrate our point. There are gold nuggets which are almost pure gold and there is gold ore of all degrees of value. No matter how much dross per ton there may be in any gold ore the gold that is drawn from it is just as pure as the gold that is taken from higher-grade ore. The amount of the dross per ton does not change the quality of whatever gold is present therein, but it does determine whether or not such ore is pay dirt! The same thing exactly is true of human beings. Whatever ascends is gold, and whatever remains is dross, whether it be from a person who is mostly good, or high-grade ore, or from a person that is mostly bad, or low-grade ore. There is no such thing as an in-between state, other than the human state of physical life as it is now known.

There is no such thing as a young soul or an old soul, for all inner souls are eternal, not subject to age, without beginning and without end, and perfect in wisdom, knowledge and understanding, having no need of experience in human form to teach them anything. Those who attempt to find out about their past incarnations in the usual ways, or in any way, always develop a split consciousness, and if they persist in such things they will surely become more or less insane. Why? Because each person has billions of atoms in his body, each with an auric record of its experiences, and every one of those atoms has been in one or more different human bodies. You have the atoms from millions of other human bodies that have gone before you. In the psychic field all that can be touched is the atomic vibration, and there are so many of these, and they are so at variance, that it is a hopeless maze. Until a person has ascended into the consciousness of his or her own God-Self, and is abiding there, he cannot know of the past incarnations of his God-Self, and then such knowledge comes, if it be needed, without any trying to get it.

There are no evil entities other than human beings. When this fact is understood the rest is easy to comprehend. Those who wished to control people through fear have taught otherwise; but that which leaves the body at death is perfect, no matter what the body and its mind may have done contrary to the direction of the God-Self. There are no evil entities other than visible, physical, ordinary human beings as now known to mankind.

At this point the question always arises, “What, then, is the use of trying to be good? Why not just go out and do whatever I want to? For I don't care what happens to my body, if my soul is all right and ascends anyway.”

That is a perfectly human attitude, which springs from the fact that the person who asks such a question has not yet come to understand the true purpose of incarnation. The average human being has been taught to believe that, in his human consciousness and mind, he is something apart from his body. Many have taught that there is some sort of a soul between the human being, with his mind and body, and the Inner God Being. Such an idea is utterly false. The soul about which the Bible speaks is the human being. The human being, as the ordinary one knows himself, is simply a physical body with a conscious mind, and a vague idea that he has some sort of connection with what is vaguely called God. Some teach that the God-Self is outside of the body, while still others teach that the human being has no direct contact with God Being in any way. It may be argued that it makes no difference what a person thinks about the position of God Being in relationship to himself so long as he is earnest. It is true that the earnest one, if he wavers not, will carry through into a realization of the truth, but he must be willing to acknowledge the truth when he comes face to face with it, for otherwise he will repel himself from his one source of life.

The God Being incarnates into the human being for one purpose; namely, to bring eternal life and perfect function to that human being, if he will only respond and let it be so. The God Being does not come into the body to learn something or to gain experience. The awakened human being knows that it is in accordance with the divine plan that his physical body, with its mind, should ascend into the divine body and Christ mind of his God-Self, and he also knows that he can live now in the ascended consciousness state and live among men, taking care of that to which he is called in service in a perfectly natural manner, so that he does not look to death, nor to the end of physical life, for a time of ascension. Such a person could not ask a question like the one above.

If you feel like asking the above question, answer this question first: “Since you do not care what happens to your body, would you object if someone wished to cut off your hand, or foot, or some other portion of your body?” When you face the fact, you come to the realization that you do care, and care very much, what happens to your body. When you come face to face with yourself you will have to admit that you, as you know yourself, are your body and mind. You, then, are a human being who is mortal. The presence of your God Being in you allows you an opportunity to respond in the Christ love and be adopted by your God-Self. To the degree to which you are so resurrected, or that you so ascend, you will take part in eternal life, and you will continue on after what the world calls death. However, to the degree that you follow after your own carnal or human mind and refuse to respond to the love of your God-Self, you will be subject to death—and to that degree, death will be the end of you. Those who waste time playing with the astral realm and their experiences or dreams, thinking thereby to gain knowledge and make progress on the Way, are being deluded.

Those who are truly responding in love to their Lords do see many things, which may be called visions, and thereby is their consciousness caused to expand, but that is not of the astral realm; it is of the Christ radiance. The earnest one rejoices in each vision but he does not attach undue importance to it; he learns his lesson and carries on, always standing upon the rock of fact and truth. Such an one has no time for self-hypnosis or the passing fancies developed by human minds and released into the astral realm. Such an one knows that in this present Life he can experience full release into reality.

© Emissaries of Divine Light